The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-26
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From ne st. Lovis Globe Ds~ocrat
The number Of persons who mako living
out OF New York barrooms has grown to
legion. American barrooms are tho most ar
tistio and inviting in tho world, and the entor-
prise OF their proprietors has made business
and handsome incomes for purveyors In many
lines. At stated Intervals man from New
jersey yists Al thu PRINCIPAL s FL *. 81 so the
Of sTsesag He hires ay sGIes Of ro low sh ~
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highly than sweet flag as q breath disintect.
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bunch. All flrst,class saloons use at least one
bunch OF mint a day. Then comes the handler
Zee. snake root and esssia buds. The latter are
the %9ss nGpS 81 s e. m
era I pinch ~ oSssia buds shsvss on the profits
s wts hS viii furnish n' The
lar concomitant Of drinks is the comparatively
new feature OF pafched sweet c2T b winch n se b
efaliy sprinkied with salt, and the man who
takes drink and then chews handful OF
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parched coan make an income of moro than IS
IN MeT in Sha
large number Of women make o comfort
sGes laa q Tie bars q Saloons great
army OF lemon and orange vendors VISIT certain
shee The
day s and oranges, plneapples, ana strawberries
One man has for years made. a handsome
living By selling soft shell crabs In The SALOONS
ss onSe % he in
The principal free lunch saloon OF the city,
in which a high salsried chief Is employed
RUSSIAN ca1iare saasases and roast beef that
cost tho proprietor Of tho place 5000 per week.
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his place with curiously cut pendant, paper
Fashion. which governs saloons as rigidly az 1t
and drove It out Of date saloons In the rural
now win res6 papoE II Ss4
sSco UNI Is the style set 81 dry Goods
saloon keeper who had weeriod Of the gapdy
festoons Of paper, asked the tasteful window
e S asy nsw sn tGr s ss
oithe place from the lies. The decorator took
some eheap tarlatan Of gay eolors and trimmed
inc BdlOOn WIN H. AustouIy Suo pioco peSouiSs
With orders to the extent that he left the store
and made $40 per day trimming saloons Pro-
fesslonal window trimmers all over the city
and from Europe. where window decorating Is
u trade by itself. found out the secret, and the
next year dozen mon were ut the business.
Now more tn AN 100 professional decorators
mako a living in New York tri mining saloons.
They begin SOLICITING orders long before flies
from April to August They pay from l2h
to IS cents yard for the tarlatan they use,
and get from $40 to 500 for decorating a ga
loon. They keep stocks OF blue and yellow for
German saloons. liberal supplies OF green for
Irish resorts, and subdued. mild tints for high
toned American places. Whom the summer
trimming season Is over they begin to solicit
work for tho winter holiday time. when they
decorate saloons and private residences with
creased by tho growing fashion OF having the
stateroom OF q passenger going out on an
ocean steamer trimmed with floral festoons at
the instance of friends.
The picture framomakers, too, come In for
share OF tho profits OF the saloon business:
When new saloon or restaurant is opened
the proprietor preserves as souvenir on OF good
frarNed in the most expensive manner that tho
owner can devise, and hung up In conepicu-
ons place. Tho frame Of an initial IS bill hang
ing In one broadway saIoon Is studded with
rubies and other preciousIstones.
I. A saloonist on upper broadway. who has
literary tastes, has furnished novel attrac-
tiorto the patrons of hts wine rooms on the
OF loading works Of fiction, or travel. The
books are bound In rich Turkey morocco. and
zach room contains marble medallion por-
trait OF the late Peter Cooper.